Amazon.com Essentials:
Disaster movies used to work because there was little
certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an
amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do
celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring
and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower
floors, steadily rising to consume the revelers. Newman's an
architect, McQueen a firefighter, and Fred Astaire a kind old
gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. O.J. Simpson plays a
security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. --Keith
Simanton
Amazon.com Essentials:
Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty
as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two
original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a
skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management
cause an enormous
blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revelers. Newman's
an architect, McQueen a firefighter, and Fred Astaire a kind old
gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. O.J. Simpson plays a
security guard who rescues a
cat. Now that's a disaster. --Keith Simanton
